Labsmith LC880 8-channel Timing Controller

LC880 8-channel timing controller

The LabSmith LC880 coordinates, integrates and synchronizes complicated physical experiments, simply and affordably. With 8 timing channels, logic integration, unique timing modes and 10 ns resolution, the LC880 outperforms a rack full of digital delay generators, gates, timers, filters and cables, all for the price of a single delay.

Features

• Complete toolkit for timing and triggering experiments
• 8 channels of agile digital delays, timers, and clocks
• Sophisticated logic, gating and filtering
• Windows- or LabView-based programming and operation
• 10ns resolution and 100ps accuracy
• Field-updatable software and firmware

Applications

• Particle Imaging Velocimetry system timing
• Multi-laser and -camera optical combustion analysis systems
• Synchronise to rotating mechinery
• Mems-BioMems research
• Materials testing
• Gas Dynamics

Unmatched functionality

The LC880 brings you functions that are simply not available elsewhere. "Dynamic delay triggering" lets you reliably capture elusive phenomena, basing its delay time on a real-time measurement. This unique mode lets you control uncertain timing situations, such as synchronizing a flash to a passing projectile, or timing the spark in a cyclic combustion system. Another mode, false-trigger suppression, helps tame noisy signals and prevents unwanted triggering in sub-optimal environments. You can even employ safety interlocks and switches to toggle between operating modes (free-run, single-shot, calibration), all without jumper cables or external logic.

The hardware controller can function as part of a computer-based control system using the LabSmith Trigger software or user-written LabView or C++ routines, or it can operate stand-alone as a benchtop instrument.

With the LC880 linked to your computer, you'll quickly program, refine and expand experiments.

In stand-alone mode, you can store and recall up to 64 complete settings, then trigger and monitor an experiment from the LC880 front panel. In applications from pulsed laser spectroscopy, to synchronisation of measurement sequences to rotating machinery, the LC880 earns its place among oscilloscopes and power supplies as an indispensable lab tool.